Status Update Songs - what's at heart with what's at hand.

No.29 Remake: December is the Friday of The Year

December is the Friday of the year and it's already here/December's got that winding down feel and I'm glad that it's here/everything slackens and less and less happens/can't start a project it's that time and you know it/someone pulled the plug out/there's that gurgling sound/and I watch as the water goes around and around/it's a fantastic feeling that feeling of inevitability/that feeling it's going to set you free to be who you want to be/december always seems to come so quickly/ December doesn't come quick enough fir me/ December is the Friday of the year and it's already here/December's got that winding down feel/I'm so glad it's here.


Status Update Song No.42: Who's the daddy?

Status Interlude No.2: giddy up horsey

Status Update Song No.41: Early Night

You should kill yourself before a child/ if you're going to take a life/I know it doesnt sound so nice/but don't you don't you don't you think I'm right?/well I wouldn't like/to decide/about that now when I'm so tired/You said Someone needs to go to bed early/I thought your right yes youre more right than you can see/even more than you believe/sometimes you just don't know how right that you can be/you should be at a certain place/before start a family/you've just got back from overseas/it's like you didn't ever really leave/ever leave/like it was/all just a dream/so I think someone needs to go bed early/I look at you and I think that I can see/and I guess that means/I look at you and I see me/ they say someone needs to go to bed early/maybe they are right more more right than we had dreamed/maybe that's just what it means/and we don't need to go reading in to deep.

Status Interlude No.1: Post Minimalism Frustration Blues (duet for ukulele and washing machine)

Status Update Song 27 Remake (Featuring Eva Popov): Bask

Eva
Here is a new remake deluxe version of SUS 27 sung by the wonderful Eva Popov of Hello Satellites fame. My computer got stolen a couple of weeks ago with the original working files for this track but luckily I had done an export...I have been working on several tracks with other local singing luminaries for the next SUS album. Some of those were nearly done but got stolen too (including a track sung by Chris Bolton, A.K.A Seagull, a backing track which Oliver Mann is going to sing on and another one for Nick Huggins). So might take a little longer than I first thought. We'll get there. See this Status Update Song post for my thoughts on said theft, amongst other things.

Meanwhile:

Bask

 

Do you know who you are? 

Well you should figure it out fast

So you can own it

If you're happy and you know it 

Then you really ought to show it

 

Are you going off half-arsed? 

Do you really have to ask?

There is the sun why don't you bask? 

 

Here comes the wind put up your mast

I want to see you shine

You beat that rhythm

I'll beat in time

I want to know what's in your heart

I want to know what's on your mind

you feel in earnest

I'll feel in kind

I think it goes without saying

what's mine is yours

what's yours is mine.

 

Are you going off half-arsed? 

Do you really have to ask?

There is the sun why don't you bask? 

Status Update Song No.40: Something In Between

De la sol save my soul on a roll I don't know where I am or how to get back where it was that I was going/watched the tv and it got into my dreams and when I woke up I was thinking about that lady who was beautiful and mean/and what she meant to me and if that means anything and there's something that's important yes I think there must be something I'm forgetting or regretting or just fretting over nothing is it real life is it big love is it really maybe something in between?/then the bell it rang ring ring who could it be? I'll just stay here in bed I'll just stay here and let it be/ but there it goes again ding dong should I go and see?and then the sound it changes rattle jingle rattle jingle/it gets me worried we got broken into last week and maybe they've come back I guess I'll have to go and see/open up the door hi mum yes I'm here was I asleep was I awake well maybe something in between /in my flannel pjs in my bright green socks looking through the wire door and the wind is blowing strong and blowing hot/making small talk find it hard to concentrate/ and the next thing that I know I'm on the floor I see the shoebox by my face/there's my glasses what is this am I in tv land?/is this a crisis or is this what I planned/is this a drama is it funny is it sad/ is this where im going is this where ive been/I guess it's somewhere in between.

Status update song 39: long time ago now

You got my computer/you got my music/I hope you can use it/I hope you do/yes maybe you can find a way to use it/to loose it/to abuse it/to fuck it down take it to town and turn it all around and upside down and inside out and all about and make it scream and make it shout there is no doubt that I was robbed but that was long time ago now/you got my business/that I never finished/I've got it backed up/but you can keep it if you want it if you really want it/If you've got the courage/if you've got the conviction/cause in this world there's nothing certain and you must be a certain type of person to believe in your opinions and as for me I'd rather retreat to a world of ambiguity/of belief/what you see/what you perceive/told the police/about what you stole/but I think I know/that was a long long time ago/I think somehow/that was a long time ago now.

38: Myspace When You Died You Took My Music Career With You

Myspace when you died you took my music career with you/you were the first great social network/but now you're just a great big ghost town/how did you sink so low?/you were so big we never thought you'd go/but when I get message now/it's only ever something quite desperate/an SOS from a sinking ship/a mayday call from an Atlantis/we're all adrift on the same ship/up the same creek in the same shit/you were so sexy for a while/but another came who had more style/you tried to dress as well as she did/but somehow you just always seemed to miss/

Status Update Song No. 37: Get on the Bus

Won't you escape?/won't you escape with me?/we'll find a new way/well find a new way of seeing/get on the bus with all of us/were taking off going nowhere fast/we're artists/and we make it up/is it real/it is if you dont ask/we're bound to loose/but I don't care/we will beware but not afraid/We've built it up/all of us/and all you have to do is come/come along with everyone/Can it last? Do you really need to ask?Do you really need to ask/those that are first will later be last/but I'm not fussed/my greatest work was going riding on a bus/and if your sus/these stripey shirts they show that this was all for us/what a blast/it's what you do not how long you last.